Student Generated Websites

All of these websites were developed by groups of first-year Villanova students.  The software for the projects was Task Stream (www.taskstream.com).  Instructor: John Immerwahr, Department of Philosophy, Villanova University.

First year humanities seminar projects:

• St. Augustine’s Living Legacy at Villanova. Integrating a study of St. Augustine’s Confessions, with Augustinian symbols on campus, and the experience of college freshman year. The assignment is also available.

• Images of St. Augustine.  Similar to the project above but focusing mostly on artistic images.

• St. Augustine’s Freshman Year: A Fictional Blog. A fictional blog about a first-year Villanova student who experiences many of the same things that Augustine describes in Confessions.

• Leadership Lessons from the Ancient World.  Students in Villanova’s Leadership Learning Community derive contemporary leadership principles from Genesis, Euripides, Plato, the Gospel of Mark, and Augustine.

Introduction to philosophy classes.  These projects were done by individual discussion sections in a large lecture class. The projects were supervised by graduate assistants, and students had somewhat less time to work on them than in the examples above. The assignment was to draw implications from Plato, Augustine, Locke, Marx and other philosophers read in the Introduction to Philosophy Course. 

• Four  Major Thinkers for Today.

• Why Study Philosophy?

• Asking the Question: What is Philosophy?

Update: June 24, 2009